10/15/2026
There's more to oysters than "months that end in R." Check out how Jamestown Seafood gets the oyster seed started. Would you believe that many oyster farms rely on getting their seed from hatcheries off the coast of Kona, HI?
But isn't the water warmer there you ask? The hatcheries operate in deep, pristine, cold water where the conditions are just right to grow the algae needed for sustaining the seed until it's viable enough to be shipped out to farms.